UN envoy visits Rohingya camps in BD

COX´S BAZAR, Bangladesh: UN human rights envoy Yanghee Lee used to be on Tuesday visiting Rohingya refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, the place hundreds have taken safe haven after fleeing an army crackdown in Myanmar.
Almost 73,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh because the army unleashed a four-month marketing campaign of violence towards the stateless Muslim minority that the United Nations says would possibly quantity to crimes towards humanity.
The refugees, maximum of whom at the moment are dwelling in squalid camps in the Cox´s Bazar district which borders Myanmar´s Rakhine state, have introduced harrowing accounts of systematic rape, killings and torture by the hands of the army.
Lee, the UN´s Special Rapporteur at the factor, used to be in the coastal district on Tuesday after maintaining talks with executive ministers in Dhaka concerning the disaster. There used to be no fast remark from the UN, however the Bangladesh overseas ministry stated Dhaka had expressed fear over the presence of the Rohingya in the rustic.
“She (Lee) is now visiting the camps to speak to the refugees,” Bangladesh overseas ministry spokeswoman Khaleda Begum advised AFP. Myanmar says its military has now halted its operations in Rakhine, that have been aimed toward discovering militants who attacked police border posts.